TECC

TECC

From: $450.00

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The Tactical Emergency Casualty Care (TECC) course, developed by the National Association of EMTs introduces evidence-based, life-saving techniques and strategies for providing the best trauma care in a civilian tactical operation or any other human threat emergency. TECC is conducted under the auspices of the PHTLS program. TECC is oriented toward the civilian tactical medical provider and is fully compliant with the recommendations of the Hartford Consensus I, II, III and IV, the C-TECC standards and the foundational principles of Tactical Combat Casualty Care. This program also exceeds the 2015 amendments to the California Code of Regulations, Title 22, Division 9, Chapter 1.5, Article 3, §100017(14) and CA H&S §100017(14)(A) for individual first responder training as a State of California Advanced Tactical First Aid Course (Fire/Law/EMS). Upon successful completion of TECC, students will receive NAEMT certification in TECC, valid for 4 years from course completion and 16 hours of CMEs/CEUs. (California Law Enforcement may submit POST-2-213/213A for CPT credit.

We also offer custom courses according to your agency needs and tailored to your specific operational responsibilities. Call or email us for details. (A basic TECC course for 14 of your personnel starts at $400.00 per student!)

(Scheduled course hours are 0900-1800; however, we teach to content and not hours so class occasionally runs over).

Developed by NAEMT’s Prehospital Trauma Life Support (PHTLS) Committee, the TECC program is based on the guidelines from the Committee on Tactical Emergency Casualty Care (Co-TECC) and the Tactical Combat Casualty Care (TCCC) program. TECC uses lessons learned from our military and applies them to the civilian world of tactical medicine.
This 16-hour, 2-day course covers topics designed to decrease preventable death in the tactical situation. Topics include: Hemorrhage control; surgical airway control and needle decompression; strategies for treating wounded responders in threatening environments; caring for pediatric patients; and techniques for dragging and carrying victims to safety.
At the core of the TECC program are three distinct phases that have been well-proven by TCCC-trained personnel in the war against terrorism in Iraq and Afghanistan. The phases are as follows:
• Direct Threat Care
Care that is rendered while under attack or in adverse conditions.
• Indirect Threat Care
Care that is rendered while the threat has been suppressed, but may resurface at any point.
• Evacuation
Care that is rendered while the casualty is being evacuated from the incident site.

TECC focuses on the medicine during these phases of care and provides guidelines for managing trauma in the civilian tactical or hazardous environment. While TECC has a tactical slant, it takes an all-hazards approach to providing care outside the normal operating conditions of most EMS agencies, such as responding to a mass casualty or active shooter event.